On 7 May 2018 22:02:06 BST, "S.A.N" <ua.san.a...@gmail.com> wrote: >Fiber and all async functions, without event-loop - useless. >Need new PHP Application Server. >Best variant `libuv` in core PHP for event-loop and async I/O, and >implementing as async PHP SAPI as `Nginx Unit` module
These are all good ideas, but I don't think any of them are logical "must haves". - Async functions might be useful in all sorts of contexts outside of a global event loop. For instance, handling non-blocking I/O. - An event loop doesn't necessarily imply a built-in Application Server, e.g. a worker for a message queue or task broker. - A full Application Server implies important decisions about the language itself, like how to represent requests and responses, how global and static scopes work, etc. These need to be designed in the abstract, and an interface like Python's WSGI defined, before worrying about implementation details. - Once we've standardised the userland, the internal Async SAPI interface can be implemented, and an Nginx Node might well be one of the implementations, but that's not something we need to think about yet. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
